Busteed Prizes
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Busteed Prizes
26.01.2011

The Busteed award winners were announced recently at UCC. The awards were made to students who achieved the highest overall Economics mark in Arts 1, 11 and 111 and Commerce 1, 11, 111 and IV. Professor John Busteed was Professor of Economics and Dean, Faculty of Commerce at UCC from 1924 until his death in 1964. He was known as an inspiring teacher and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Adult Education Movement.

Professor Busteed served on several Government Commissions, including the “Commission of Inquiry into Banking, Currency and Credit”, for which he also wrote a notable Minority Report. He also acted as Chairman of the Joint Unity Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Congress of Irish Unions, which brought about the unification of the trade union movement. For many years he was also an honorary member of the Cork Chamber of Commerce.

Picture:  Back row, Dr Declan Jordan, Mr Robbie Butler, Ms Mary Maguire, Department of Economics. Middle row, Stephen Moore, BComm 1, Dr Catherine Kavanagh, Department of Economics, Ms Kate O’Flynn, BComm III, Dr Ella Kavanagh, BA Programme Director, Ms Siobhan Lavery, Student Services Office, David Butler, BComm IV. Front row: Professor Connell Fanning, Head, Department of Economics, Ms Cara Hegarty, BComm II, Ms Sharon Kingston, Arts II and Dr Eleanor Doyle, Department of Economics.  Missing from photo are Ms Anne Ledwidge, Arts I and Ms Nusa Znuderl, Arts III winner.



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